Overview

This book provides a unique review of technical developments related to the unification that is rapidly taking place today among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC). It assesses potential for revolutionary applications of these developments and their likely impact in improving the human condition and offers a wide variety of scholarly views on the likely societal impacts and policy implications of these developments and applications, including assessments of educational, economic, commercial, legal, ethical, political, and social implications.

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Author:   William Sims Bainbridge ,  Mihail C. Roco
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9789048170449

ISBN 10:   9048170443
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Progressive Convergence.- The Emergence and Policy Implications of Converging New Technologies.- Roadmapping Convergence.- NBIC Convergent Technologies and the Innovation Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century.- Measuring the Merger: Examining the Onset of Converging Technologies.- Collaboration on Converging Technologies: Education and Practice.- If We Build It, Will They Come? The Cultural Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure Development.- Converging Technologies in Developing Countries: Passionate Voices, Fruitful Actions.- Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine.- Biologically-Inspired Cellular Machine Architectures.- Cognitive Enhancement and the Neuroethics of Memory Drugs.- Neuropolicy (2005 2035): Converging Technologies Enable Neurotechnology, Creating New Ethical Dilemmas.- Information Technology and Cognitive Systems.- Cognitive Technologies.- NBIC Convergence and Technology-Business Coevolution: Towards a Services Science to Increase Productive Capacity.- An Ethic for Enhancing Human Performance Through Integrative Technologies.- Science Confronts the Law.- Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century.- Co volution of Social Science and Emerging Technologies.

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Dr. Mihail C. Roco is a senior advisor on nanotechnology for the National Science Foundation, as well as chair on the Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council.

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